Shopping in Chiang mai

Chiang Mai is a very good place for shopping. Umbrellas made of sa paper, hilltribe crafts ,fabrics of countless types, delicate ceramics, replicated and genuine antiques, dazzling jewelry and gems, silverware of all sorts, lacquerware with intricate designs, rattan and wickerwork, and woodcarvings ranging from pictures to furniture are only a part of the long list of crafts and arts that help to make Chiang Mai special. Cottons & Silks first-class Chiang Mai cottons and silks are of a very high quality. Cottons and silkshave innumerable fashion and furnishing applications. Furniture/Woodcarving Chiang Mai is a major centre of furniture making. Major woods and materials include teak, rosewood and rattan. Woodcarving is a traditional northern Thai art featured in numerous temples.

The Night Bazaar on Chang Klang Road is the city's most famous shopping location and is a must for all visitors. It is a lively area with department stores, shops and stall vendors.

It begins to come to life in the early evening and buzzes till midnight, but a few shops are open all day.
If you are looking for all kind of Antiques, paintings, textiles, silverware and woodcrafts then this is the right place and in general everything is cheaper than Bangkok. You can also find faked designer cloth and a lot of other things.

Bor Sang Village is located at Highway 1006. This road serves as the location to the largest amount and the most popular of handicraft factories . and shops in Chiang Mai.

It begins at the Chiang Mai - Sankampaeng intersection and continues to the Sankampaeng district at k.m. 13. It is lined on both sides by showrooms and factories where you have the opportunity to observe the production of crafts, as well as purchase them. Thai silk, cotton, lacquerware, ceramics, leather products, silverware, umbrellas, woodwork, jewelry, and antiques can all be found along this road.

Held on Sundays just outside Tapae Gate, this weekend market brings the
best of what is available from the region, and more. Prices are even
better than at the Night Bazaar, especially nearing the closing time of
the market. Be prepared to bargain though!

Is a lesser known weekly market on Saturday evenings. It starts with the closing of the street to traffic about 4:30 in the evening but does not get going till around 5:30 to 6:00 due to the heat most vendors hide in the shade till it starts to cool off.

It has many small producers selling their wares from cotton hand painted T-shirts to local ceramics. The prices are good and there you will find some items that are not available anywhere else. It is not as well know with tourists so is a little more fun and less business like than the Sunday market.

Night Bazzaar is nothing compared to the offerings in Baan Tawai. It is now become the shopper heaven of the north of Thailand. It is famous with Thai travellers as the place to get anything at a good price from a 12 foot wooden elephant to the perfect textile hanging for the summer home.
Just out of Chiang mai off the Hangdong road you will find the place all the wholesellers and the exporters go to find those fantastic newly made antiques or home decor items. They sell in rivercity, pier one and you name it they all go there to buy or produce. There are markets of small more..